Continuity+and+Change+Questions+for+Older+Students


 * 1) Arrange the following in order of time.(artifacts, pictures, evidence) Explain your choice.
 * 2) What might a cotton worker have noticed different about conditions at work between 1750 and 1850?
 * 3) Why did the Renaissance happen at the time that it did?
 * 4) Match the following events with the correct dates giving reasons for your answer.
 * 5) Why did it take twenty years before Germany took revenge for the Treaty of Versailles?
 * 6) Why did primitive methods of power continue for so long even though the principles of the steam engine were known to the Ancient Greeks?
 * 7) which of the following developments in technology can be seen as progressive/regressive? Explain your answer.
 * 8) Why did these events relating to the development of education in the 19th century happen in this order?
 * 9) What was happening in Africa during the time when the Tudors were on the English throne?
 * 10) What politicalsocialculturalreligious/scientific changes were taking place during the rapid period of industrialization in the late 18th Century?
 * 11) How might we see these radical changes in the 19th Century as progressive in some ways but regressive in other ways?
 * 12) Explain why the growth of Manchester occurred at the rate it did in the 19th Century.
 * 13) Why did old age pensions occur much more quickly in Germany than in England?
 * 14) Why were people still put on trial for witchcraft at the same time as advanced scientific discoveries as that by Harvey?
 * 15) What factors were the most important in producing changes/lack of change/improvement in working conditions for children?
 * 16) Why was slavery abolished in Britain but colonization continued?
 * 17) What was the effect of the Norman Conquest in the short/long term?
 * 18) Explain how and why our views of the European community have changed over the last 30 years.

Continuity and Change

Agenda for May 5